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RUSSIA: RUSSIANS ANGERED BY BUSH REMARKS...(George W. Bush)(Brief Article)

IPR Strategic Business Information Database, January, 2001

Moscow analysts, politicians, and media outlets reacted angrily on 15 January to U.S. President-elect George W. Bush's remarks in "The New York Times" that his administration might reduce or cut off aid to Russia. Liliya Shevtsova of the Carnegie Moscow Center told "Vedomosti" that "it is unpleasant that this statement is made when we still have not rebuilt our relations with the International Monetary Fund." That paper noted that words like those used by Bush "have never before been pronounced at such a senior level." "Izvestiya" described Bush's remarks about Russia as "a perestroika" in relations between the two countries.

Finance Minister Aleksei Kudrin told ITAR-TASS that Moscow understands that such a shift could have an impact on Russia's negotiations...

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